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One cannot step into the same river twice, because neither the river nor the person is already different.

—Heraclitus (a legendary philosopher and a representative of the Efes)

After Oscar and Cleopatra's army suffered a crushing defeat under the city of Memphis, Oscar temporarily slowed down his assault on Memphis; In addition to the cancellation of the direct attack of the army, the attack on Memphis by the equipment units of the various legions of the Augustan Empire has just begun, and this time the army of the Augustan Empire is all using stone crossbows!

Because the walls of Memphis are so tall, the shells and bolts fired by the ballista cannons cannot effectively attack the defenders on the city walls, and the destructive power of the city walls itself is extremely limited; In order to better play the role of the equipment force, Oscar directly let the thirty-six stone crossbows of the three infantry regiments under his command carry out twenty rounds of bombardment of the northern wall of Memphis every day.

The forty-eight catapults of the four infantry regiments under the command of Spartak also carried out twenty rounds of bombardment of the western wall of Memphis every day, and as for the Hannibal Legion and the Chengguan Legion, which had no equipment and troops, their task was to watch dryly.

The attack of the catapult was an unbearable burden for the walls of Memphis City; One boulder is not enough to cause effective damage to the walls of Memphis, but the attack of hundreds of boulders every day is enough to make the walls of Memphis City groan.

In fact, the defenders of the city of Memphis also suffered huge losses on the city walls; The stones thrown by the catapult can completely go over the walls of Memphis City and smash into Memphis City, and naturally they can also be smashed into the walls of Memphis City.

While it's not easy to bombard the walls directly, it's not absolutely impossible; Even if it is as small as a 1% probability, the twenty rounds of bombardment of eighty-four stone crossbows every day is a full 1,680 boulder attacks!

In order to avoid repeating the previous mistakes, Oscar ordered all the armies of the Augustan Empire and the troops under Cleopatra to temporarily stop attacking for ten days; During these ten days, every day was the routine bombardment of the walls of Memphis by the catapult units in the Augustan Imperial Army, and the fortified walls of Memphis City also appeared more and more gaps in such a large-scale bombardment.

When the defenders on the walls of Memphis faced with the catapult bombardment of the Augustan Empire, they did not dare to stay on the city walls in large quantities, so they could only deploy a small number of troops on the city walls and hide all the troops at the foot of the city walls to avoid the flying boulders.

Even so, the defenders of the Memphis walls could not avoid a skyrocketing number of their own casualties; By the fifth day of the catapult bombardment, all the buildings within 50 meters of the city walls of Memphis had been smashed into ruins, and even the casualties of the defenders on the walls were in the thousands.

Compared to these actual losses, the worst thing for the defenders of Memphis was the sharp drop in morale; It is impossible for any ordinary soldier to maintain high morale under the bombardment of large-scale catapults from enemy troops outside the city every day, not to mention that the defenders in Memphis are still the army of the Kingdom of Egypt, which has always been known for its low morale.

While his own army of catapults bombarded the walls of Memphis every day, Oscar would organize the Egyptian soldiers of Cleopatra's army to shout and persuade the defenders of the city to surrender every evening; In order to avoid being attacked by the archers of the defenders on the wall, Oscar had the soldiers of Cleopatra's army shout at a distance of 300 meters from the city wall to persuade him to surrender.

It is still difficult to make people three hundred meters away clearly hear the content of the shouting with only the human voice, Oscar does not deny the existence of such people, but does not think that such people are ordinary; Even if there were such talents in Cleopatra's army, there would certainly not be many of them, let alone keep shouting like this.

As a result, Oscar gave full play to his initiative and led the craftsmen in his army to build more than a dozen extremely simple megaphones; These loudspeakers are basically modified from the military horns of the Augustus Imperial Army, and they are very simple to use, and the range of sound transmission is unusually wide.

With these megaphones, Oscar's plan to surrender could be implemented every evening; In fact, Oscar did not expect a few words to make Memphis loyal to Ptolemy XIII's army, and all he asked the Cleopatra generals to do was to reduce the morale of the defenders as much as possible.

Oscar's strategy proved to be very effective; The morale of the defenders in Memphis was already declining, and now it has dropped to the bottom, and even when patrolling the city walls at night, it seems weak.

Perceiving the change in the morale of the soldiers under his command, Bosinus hoped to motivate the morale of his soldiers in some way; At first, Bohynius's encouragement was still very effective, and his soldiers were also enthusiastic to express their willingness to fight to the death against the invaders of the Augustan Empire in order to ensure the independence of the Kingdom of Egypt.

However, the fragility of language lies in the fact that it simply does not produce lasting memories in the listener; The morale of the Kingdom of Egypt, which had been boosted by Bosinus the previous night, was again attacked by the catapults of the Augustan Empire the next night, and the morale of the rapidly rising army dropped at an even faster rate.

Bosinus could not watch his soldiers go down like this, the reinforcements of the Phoenician governor Berdinus and the Jewish governor Okchivian had not yet arrived, and the defenders of Memphis were the only force that held out in the city of Memphis; Posinus had to keep the morale of the city's soldiers high, and he had to keep their fighting power strong.

The armies of Augustus and Cleopatra paid a terrible price on the first day of attack on Memphis, which was also a result of Bohynius' excitement; The defenders of Memphis were the most advantageous battle for their side to inflict countless casualties on the attacking enemy at a negligible cost.

Unfortunately, the enemy forces outside the city stopped this attack, which was extremely advantageous to the defenders, after only a day of fierce attack, and began to bombard the walls of Memphis City every day with catapults; I have to admit that such an attack did make the defenders of the city helpless, and even Posinus did not have a good way to solve such a problem.

In desperation, Bosinus had no choice but to run to the palace of Ptolemy XIII and report the battle to Ptolemy XIII in detail; Of course, Posinus also knew that there was no point in reporting this to Ptolemy XIII, and he only did it to obtain at least five million gold coins from Ptolemy XIII.

The saying that money can make ghosts grind is not a famous saying in the East, but also exists in the West, which values money more; The best thing Bohynius could come up with was to use a large amount of gold coins to maintain the morale of his soldiers and ensure the strong combat effectiveness of the defenders of Memphis.

Ptolemy XIII was pale from alarm at the alarmism of Bosinus, and he could hear the terrifying sound of stones crashing against the walls every day in the royal palace; This time he did not disappoint Bohynius, but happily took out five million gold coins from the treasury of the Kingdom of Egypt and handed them to Bosinus.

Bohynius, who had received five million gold coins, immediately distributed fifty gold coins to each of the soldiers who defended the city walls. For this alone, Bosinus spent most of the five million gold coins, and the effect was indeed incomparable.

The soldiers of the defending army, who were rewarded with fifty gold coins, finally saw the light of hope for a better life in the future in the darkness of fear; However, as Bohynius said when handing out the coins, they had to defeat the rebels outside the city and the invading army from the Augustan Empire before they could return home with their gold coins and live a prosperous and happy life with their families.

In order to completely eliminate the worries of the defenders, Posinus also promised all the soldiers under his command that as long as they could defeat the enemy forces outside the city, every surviving warrior would receive a richer reward; For the soldiers who died in battle, all the rewards they received were sent to their families, this is the promise of Posinus to them!

Bohynius was also one of the more accomplished generals of the Kingdom of Egypt, and compared to other inactive or ambitious generals, Bosinus was a very pure general; He was also loved by the soldiers, otherwise he would not have been able to play such an important role in Cleopatra's war and successfully control the main army of the Kingdom of Egypt.

The promises made by such generals could naturally be trusted by the defenders of Memphis; Posinus used his own efforts to raise the morale of the defenders of Memphis to a new peak, but he could not change the destruction of the walls by the enemy's catapults.

On the seventh day of the attack on the walls of Memphis by the catapults of the Augustan army, the walls west of Memphis were finally destroyed by the Spartacus troops for a long time. However, this is just the beginning, and then the northern wall of Memphis City was also destroyed by Oscar's main army several sections one after another, and the entire city wall of Memphis City has been rendered useless!

Such a situation was extremely advantageous for the combined forces of the Augustan Empire and Cleopatra, but it could not form an absolute advantage; After all, there are at least 60,000 defenders in Memphis City, and their combat effectiveness should not be underestimated, and once the street fighting begins, it is the defenders in Memphis City who are more familiar with Memphis City, which is also an indisputable fact. (To be continued.) Mobile phone users, please browse and read, a better reading experience.